31/05/2013 Standing Committee
Strasbourg, 31.05.2013 – The PACE Standing Committee meeting today in Yerevan, decided to make amendments to its monitoring procedure based on proposals by Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD), rapporteur on this subject. The Monitoring Committee will henceforth present, at least once every three years, a report on each country being monitored or involved in post-monitoring dialogue (under the current rules, a report must be presented every two years for the States subject to a monitoring procedure, and every four years for the States engaged in post-monitoring dialogue).
Another amendment entails the setting of a two-year time limit for the examination by the Monitoring Committee of an application to open or reopen a monitoring procedure (this is the common deadline imposed on committees seized for a report). Finally, the Monitoring Committee will be allowed to prepare reports on the functioning of democratic institutions in a member State, on the basis of a motion for a resolution or for a recommendation.